Syria: Air strike leaves 16 dead including 7 children

An air strike that hit the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib on Sunday killed at least 16 people, including seven children and five women, a monitoring group said, raising from four an earlier toll.

"The number of people killed in the air strike in the village of Al-Bara in Jabal al-Zawiya has risen to at least 16," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (AFP)